Xavi: “I can’t accept our first half, it’s my fault and it won’t happen again”. “We were not aggressive. It’s unacceptable”. “We are NOT Barça 2010 here. Run like animals or no chance. Fight on every ball or we won’t win any title”. “We need to fight. I wanna see passion”.

by icestory

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  2. Yeah ….. the only thing that gives me hope is that if Napoli somehow gets worse on February (They just lost 0-4 at home at Cup) , we have a shot for Quarter finals before any other team kick us out , unless PSV somehow beats Borrusia and we draw them on Quarters lmao.

  3. The sad part is alot of today’s players get butthurt and take it up the ass so hard when they get chewed out. They take it personally and start to make the bed.

    Players want to be spoken to a certain way and push back when they’re expected and pushed to play like men not pansies.

  4. it’s been happening this whole season and will happen again as it does week in and week out. post match threads bring up the same concerns and discussions every week, nothing gets addressed.

  6. I hope he’s saying the same thing to the players in the locker room and not only in media.

    Our team is average quality outside of 3-4 guys and these guys shouldn’t have to be told to put in a shift every time they get a chance on the pitch.

    Words aren’t enough. Bench players who don’t show effort. Show them you won’t take a relaxed attitude and things will turn around, or you’ll smoke out the guys who dont deserve this shirt.

    Either we set up the standard we want to see from the team or we accept mediocrity. There shouldn’t be any in between.

  7. This press conference is receiving a lot of applause, probably more necessary for the internal dynamics of the team. But if we focus on what he says, until today it was a problem of bad luck, and now it’s about hunger and intensity. Both may be true, but the most significant deficiency is football.

  8. Well, at least that’s not what he says formally, I hope the players see this as an incentive

  11. 2.5 years and he can’t motivate this team at all

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